Cutting Hours Is Not The Answer

It’s become incredibly popular during this recession to furlough employees or cut their hours with an equivalent decrease in pay. (The difference is a furlough is usually taken as a lump of time all at once, where cutting 10% of one’s weekly hours for 10% of one’s pay is more of a gradual approach.)

But do these tactics work? Tim Sackett, an HR pro in Michigan, says NO.

“For salaried workers, cutting hours now gives them an hourly working mentality.

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